Cultivating Reciprocity: In Conversation with the 2021–2022 KU Common Book
Exhibition Overview
Kate Meyer, curator
Angela Watts, curator
The KU Common Book program represents a campus-wide initiative to engage first-year students in a shared reading and learning experience. This year’s selection—Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer—has prompted the selection of this year’s Common Work of Art, a series of five signs by Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds. This virtual exhibition expands on Kimmerer’s ambition to cultivate a spirit of reciprocity in which people and land become good medicine for one another. Cultivating Reciprocity is organized into three themes: Indigenous origin and creation stories, the gift of plants, and the history of education for Indigenous peoples.
Works of art
